The day Jorge Campos asked for a Ferrari to play with the LA Galaxy

Major League Soccer came to light in 1996, year in which he played his first meeting and in which he began to write his story, which has been nourished by the arrival of great figures and one of the teams that has been characterized by bringing world-class players to its ranks, is LA Galaxy, which before Beckham, Zlatan or Chicharito, announced the signing of its first great star: Jorge Campos.

Campos came from playing in the 1994 World Cup, precisely in the United States and arrived at Major League Soccer with a consolidated career and as a true world figureBecause his peculiar style, in addition to his colorful uniforms, made the Acapulco-born goalkeeper take a large number of fans wherever he stood, something that the LA Galaxy noticed and was launched by the Mexican, who He made a curious request to play in the Californian outfit.

The brody He played his first game in Major League Soccer on April 13, 1996, in the LA Galaxy’s victory over the New York Metrostars, before a completely packed Rose Bowl to see, largely Campos, which is why on the Monday following the game, The Mexican goalkeeper arrived at the club’s offices and asked for nothing more and nothing less than a Ferrari to continue in the Galaxy.

“Jorge Campos arrived on Monday and said: ‘If you want me to come back next Saturday, I would like to have a Ferrari ‘. And he was given the Ferrari, ”says Sunil Galati, former MLS deputy commissioner between 1996 and 1999.

Campos had not only fans in love in the American Union, but also managers, who they yielded to his request and handed him a pair of luxurious Ferrariwith which The brody He was walking around Los Angeles, surrounded by a good number of Mexicans, who accompanied him during his games in Major League Soccer.

Fields in the MLS

Campos’ history in the MLS was not only full of luxuries, but also of sporting successes, because together with LA Galaxy, the Mexican goalkeeper, who played some games as a striker, made it to the grand finale of the 1996 season, same in which they fell before D.C. United, who established himself as the first champion in the history of Major League Soccer.

In total, Campos played 59 MLS games with the LA Galaxy and Chicago Fire teams, a club he transferred to in 1998 and with which he got the MLS Cup, because the painting of the Windy City, became champion within his first campaign, by precisely defeating D.C. United in the MLS Cup.

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